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NGHTWNG22 t1_jdptojj wrote

Coming from an engineering background, it is actually physically painful watching the scientific inaccuracies in this show. You either go proper sci-fi a la Stargate, Star Trek etc and maintain a level of consistency and limitations on how the sci-fi elements you introduce work, or you go grounded in reality like The Expanse or The Martian. You don't try and use realistic science then proceed to butcher it up to come up with idiotic and nonsensical macguffins like a magical pressure suit that allows a wearer to wake up and move immediately from cryosleep, or showing a spinning spaceship that magically has artificial gravity everywhere - even where it doesn't spin, or magically coming across comets, asteroids, and f**king entire planetary systems and stars?? for the exact resources they need in the middle of the empty void between Sol and Alpha Centauri which also happens to be the closest star system to Earth by literally several light years.

Exactly what was to be expected from a constantly failing upwards clown like Dean Devlin though to be fair. So don't know why I even bothered watching it.

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opiate_lifer OP t1_jdr5s40 wrote

What I can't understand is the contradictions within the SAME EPISODE like an earlier one where the engine died so they are dead in space(cut to exterior shot of the ship and yup they are immobile) then later in the same episode slightly changing their inertial trajectory is a plot point! Then we have the fact as of the latest episodes we have had it hammered into out heads they are heading to Proxima Centauri which they outright state is the closest solar system to earth. So why they happen on a freaking planetary body in the void of space?!

As of the latest episode they are going full soap opera as well.

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